State-Run Oil Giants Resume Drilling in Andaman Offshore
In a major development, state-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) has completed drilling its first well in the...
In late 1980s and early 1990s Port Blair, news traveled slowly, and society remained conservative. Young couples seeking privacy faced danger on secluded stretches near Mazar Pahar and Corbyn’s Cove, where predatory groups carried out what they chillingly referred to as “attacks.” These assaults, though widely whispered about, never reached the police or newspapers. Victims remained silent, fearing societal judgment rather than justice.
Today, Port Blair has changed—its roads busier, its isolation diminished. But the past lingers in memory, and the men who once preyed on the vulnerable now walk as husbands and fathers, their crimes buried by time and silence.
The Anti-Narcotics Police Station has secured a conviction in an NDPS case involving the seizure of 865 grams of ganja from an accused intercepted near VSI Airport.
The approaching southwest monsoon is expected to ease water stress in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but concerns over flooding, drainage failures and ferry disruptions have resurfaced in Sri Vijaya Puram ahead of the rainy season.